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Altiris Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of the Desktop Software Distribution Magic Quadrant Altiris(R) 6.0 Integrated IT Lifecycle Management Helps Companies Cut Costs and Improve Software Security SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Altiris, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced that Gartner placed Altiris in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Desktop Software Distribution Magic Quadrant*. Altiris(R) Software Delivery Solution(TM) 6.0 automates software distribution tasks to increase efficiency, improve security and reduce the cost of managing IT. IT organizations often use purchasing criteria outlined in Gartner Magic Quadrants to guide the selection process for IT product evaluations and purchases. Gartner states that vendors positioned in the Leaders Quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. According to Gartner research, "IT organizations have improved their focus and matured their processes, moving from a tactical reactive approach to a strategic focus on managing not the task at hand (like an individual application update), but the entire life cycle of the user's desktop (or laptop). IT organizations continue to demand more components from new and prospective vendors as they find new things to manage, like patches and application usage." ** Altiris is one of the few systems management vendors to provide its customers with a breadth and depth of fully integrated solutions in the areas of client, server and asset management, all easily managed from a single console. The end result is greater IT efficiency and lower cost of management throughout the lifecycle of an IT asset. Altiris provides software distribution and management as a core element of Altiris Client Management Suite(TM). Functions like policy-based management, automated inventory, patch management, backup and recovery, application packaging, software metering and remote control are also critical elements of the Altiris client management strategy. These components, when seamlessly integrated and aligned with effective IT best practices, help automate management tasks, reduce costs and secure computing environments. Altiris Software Delivery Solution 6.0 provides enterprise distribution of heterogeneous applications and software updates to help companies increase software security, manage mobile users with advanced features like checkpoint recovery, dynamic bandwidth throttling and policy-based delivery. "Altiris has now met the strict requirements to be included in the Leader Quadrant for both the Software Distribution Magic Quadrant and the PC Data and Settings Migration Magic Quadrant," said Poul Nielsen, Altiris VP of marketing and product strategy. "Software delivery is a significant component of a larger, integrated client management offering and is key to gaining control of an IT environment. Heterogeneous desktop and server software management is essential to helping our enterprise and SMB customers reduce the cost and complexity of systems management." Licensing and availability Altiris Software Delivery Solution 6.0 is now available as a component of Altiris Client Management Suite and Software Delivery Suite. For more information or to contact your local Altiris sales representative, please visit http://www.altiris.com/sales About Altiris Altiris, Inc. is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management software that allows IT organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software including Windows, Linux and UNIX. Altiris automates and simplifies IT projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of management. Altiris client and mobile, server, and asset management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and repository. For more information, visit http://www.altiris.com/ *Magic Quadrant Disclaimer The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2004 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. ** Gartner, Inc., "2004 Desktop Software Distribution Magic Quadrant," Michael Silver and Ronni Colville, Aug. 24, 2004. Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Client Management Suite and Software Delivery Solution are trademarks of Altiris, Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Altiris, Inc. CONTACT: Rhett Glauser of Altiris Inc., +1-801-805-1131, ; or Elyce Ventura of Bite Communications, +1-415-365-0360, , for Altiris, Inc. Web site: http://www.altiris.com/

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